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King Charles, approved those Designs, and that there might be no furtherInterruption, the * Warrant, as before recited, was islued under the Privy-* , Maj'»seal, for beginning the Works. ' '6-5.

From that Time, die Surveyor resolved to make no more Models, or pub-lickly expose his Drawings, which, (as he had found by Experience,) did butlose Time, and subjedted his Business many Times, to incompetent Judges.

By these Means, at last, the Scheme of the present mighty Structure, (dif-ferent in some Manner from the former, and preferable in his Maj eftss ownJudgment, upon After-thoughts) was no sooner concluded on, and order’d byIds Majejly , but begun and prosecuted by his Surveyor , with Vigour, iti theVear 1675. And the King was pleas’d to allow him the Liberty in the Pro-secution of his. Work, to make some Variations, rather ornamental, than el*fential, as from Time to Time he should see proper; and to leave the Wholelo his own Management.

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Of the tdkmg down the vctft Ruins of the old Cathedral, and ofthe' Foundations of the old and new Structure.

pulling down the Walls, being about 80 Feet high, and 5 FeetJ* - thicbj" Was a great and troublesome Work; the Men stood above, and^ork’d therm ooycti with Pickaxes, whilst Labourers below moved' away theMaterials that self. and dispersed them into Heaps: the want of Room made^'is Way flow-, ppd dangerous, and some Men lost their Livesthe Heapsv ‘ ^ grew

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